The other defense some Hagel supporters are trying with with me: “he’s professorial” it’s just his way.
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) January 31, 2013
“Supporters tell Chuck Todd that Hagel is too ‘professorial:’”
MSNBC lapdog Chuck Todd tossed a life preserver to floundering Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel earlier today, taking to Twitter to argue that it was unfair of Sen. Ted Cruz to bring up Hagel’s response to a C-SPAN caller. Todd wasn’t done, though. He later tweeted that Hagel’s flame-out was due to his being “professorial.” Not that that’s what Todd thinks — he’s just an objective journalist passing along what he’s heard from Hagel supporters.
So, the same testimony that Brit Hume said revealed Hagel to be “just not very bright” has others defending him as too professorial? Sounds about right.
Perhaps Hagel is a bit too anthropological, as well.
Update: “NBC blacks out Hagel’s disastrous confirmation hearing”?
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